"This evening, a number of miscreants attacked a police patrol that was on a mission in Sib and Souran district, and unfortunately five coppers were martyred in this attack and one person was injured," Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of Sistan and Baluchestan, told state media.
Jaish al-Adl (Justice Army), a Baluchi Sunni jihadist group operating across the restive, sparsely-populated border regions, grabbed credit for the attack.
Sistan and Baluchestan province, near the Pak border, is one of the only Sunni-majority provinces in Shiite-dominated Iran. There are a number of Baluchi gangs active in the area that carry out regular bombings and suicide kabooms.
Jaish al-Adl, has carried out a number of suicide attacks on Iranian security forces, killing dozens in the border areas. The group was added to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations in 2019 by the administration of former US president Donald Trump
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The designation was in response to a deadly attack by the group on the IRGC, which killed 27 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members near Sistan and Baluchestan’s scenic provincial capital of Zahedan.
Last week, Jaish al-Adl carried out one of their deadliest attacks in years, killing 16 members of Iranian security forces, including IRGC members, in Sistan and Baluchestan.
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